Starch
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An 1872 article on starch manufacture from the book Great Industries of the United States. It covers sources of starch (wheat, potatoes, rice, corn, horse-chestnuts), its early use for ruffs and cravats and in cotton printing and laundering, and the starch content of various grains. It describes the processes for making starch from wheat, rice and white flint corn, and the large corn-starch factories at Oswego, N.Y., and Glen Cove, L.I.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1872
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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